Species Diemoides chevron Fletcher, 2017

Museums

Regional Maps

• Diemoides chevron Fletcher, M.J. 2017. Revision of the genus Diemoides Evans with description of eight new species (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Entomologica Americana 122(3): 311–325 [Dated 2016 but published April 2017] [320].
  Zoobank Registration Number:49F7E05E-E839-4D10-8E4D-2B8B9FB8A281

  Type data:

   Holotype ASCU ASCTHE004568 ♂ (coll: M.J. Fletcher and G.R. Brown, 9.iii.1981, m.v. lamp,), Victoria Park, Alstonville, 15km E of Lismore, New South Wales.

 

Introduction

An attractive species from wet sclerophyll forest and rainforest in SE Queensland and NE New South Wales.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld: NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder.

 

Diagnosis

This species is similar in appearance to D. sagittatus Fletcher which also has the Vshaped chevron marking on the vertex and pronotum with a longitudinal stripe medially on the pronotum but in that species the markings are all red while in D. chevron the median stripe is much paler than the chevron. In addition, this species has two dark fine lines on the apex of the head but D. sagittatus has four. The structures of the male genitalia also clearly differentiate between the species (Fletcher 2017).

 

ID Keys

Fletcher 2017: 313–314

 

Diagnosis References

Fletcher, M.J. 2017. Revision of the genus Diemoides Evans with description of eight new species (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae: Deltocephalinae). Entomologica Americana 122(3): 311–325 [Dated 2016 but published April 2017] [320]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
	Deltocephalinae Dallas, 1870	10-Apr-2017	ADDED	Dr Murray Fletcher